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Microsoft CEO Ballmer suggests more hardware coming — Microsoft Corp's chief executive said his company would look at more opportunities to build its own devices, after the launch of its Surface tablet last month, potentially bringing the software giant into competition with its hardware partners …

HP's Todd Bradley: Surface is no competition to us — Todd Bradley, the head of HP's PC business, does not view Microsoft's Surface tablet as a challenge. — “I'd hardly call Surface competition,” Bradley said in an interview with IDG Enterprise. He listed several reasons, “One, very limited distribution.

YouTube Blocks Israeli Hamas Assassination Video — Israel has gone to war with Hamas in Gaza, and it is using the Internet as weapon, employing services like Twitter, Facebook and Flickr on its behalf. — The idea is familiar to anyone who has a message to push in 2012 …

Is Siri really Apple's future? — Siri is a promise. A promise of a new computing environment, enormously empowering to the ordinary user, a new paradigm in our evolving relationship with machines. Siri could change Apple's fortunes like iTunes and App Store...or end up being like the useful …

Rumor: Release of new iMacs may be delayed into 2013 — After Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed last month that there would be a “significant shortage” of the newly redesigned iMac, a report on Wednesday claims manufacturing difficulties may push back the all-in-one's launch date into next year.

RIM's Chief Is Confident of BlackBerry 10 Success — Thorsten Heins, the chief executive of Research In Motion, visited The New York Times readily tells his employees, developers and customers, BlackBerry 10, the name for the new phones and the software platform running it, is a very big bet for RIM.

One Simple Trick Could Disable a City's 4G Phone Network — High-speed LTE networks could be felled by a $650 piece of gear, says a new study. — Why It Matters — LTE networks can have 10 times the bandwidth of 3G, and are eyed as the basis for a new wave of data-rich applications worldwide.

Google vs. Samsung — Samsung's recent success in mobile phones has been spectacular. It overtook Nokia for the top spot in overall unit sales. It went from having almost no smartphone sales to selling over 50 million units per quarter in a matter of two years. — It now accounts for nearly 40% of all industry profits.

Built to win: Deep inside Obama's campaign tech — The tech unit's sign, autographed by its members. — The reelection of Barack Obama was won by people, not by software. But in a contest as close as last week's election, software may have given the Obama for America organization's people a tiny edge …

Napster, Udacity, and the Academy — Fifteen years ago, a research group called The Fraunhofer Institute announced a new digital format for compressing movie files. This wasn't a terribly momentous invention, but it did have one interesting side effect: Fraunhofer also had to figure out how to compress the soundtrack.

Why Microsoft Says the Patent System Is Peachy Keen — Bart Eppenauer grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, and after moving away for college and law school and a first job in Chicago, he came back to his hometown, joining a Kansas City law firm called Shook, Hardy & Bacon.

Fab goes to free shipping. Permanently. — We can't bear to say it, but the holidays are sort of upon us, and design-centric flash sales site Fab.com is getting into the swing of things early with free shipping. — There's no special code, and this isn't a limited-time offer just for December.